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Sabretooth. Oh god,
is this still going?
For a while, the review of this
issue was going to consist of a big flashing sign saying "WHO
CARES?" But I suppose I'd better go into a little more
detail than that. Lest there be any doubt, however, I
don't care, and I strongly doubt that any of you do either.
It's a Sabretooth miniseries - he's a limited character who
was killed by overexposure years ago and has never recovered.
Who really cares about any Sabretooth story any more?
I gave the first issue of this
series a positive review, largely because I was astonished
that Daniel Way and Bart Sears had delivered a comic which was
actually readable. The novelty of the creative team
achieving those dizzy heights has now worn off, and we're left
with a miniseries in which Sabretooth wanders around a
village, Sasquatch wanders around a village, they fight a bit,
and the obligatory baffled civilian who stars in every Daniel
Way story sits around being terrified.
The big twist this issue is that
Sabretooth isn't killing the people at all. This took me
entirely by surprise. I thought it was obvious from the
word go. But apparently it's supposed to be a twist.
Oh dear.
There's a mildly interesting bit
at the end where Sasquatch gives us a lecture about
Sabretooth's character. Way has some potentially
promising ideas about the character. What a shame he's
completely failed to dramatise them in any way, and has to
resort to getting a guest star to read them out to the
audience instead.
Marvel seem to like Daniel Way.
On the strength of this series and the disastrous Venom
title, I'm damned if I can work out why. Gun Theory
was alright, I suppose, but it didn't even run the full
series. He wrote a couple of passable shaggy-dog stories
for Wolverine. But come on. This is a
tension-free dirge of a miniseries. It's flabby,
shapeless rubbish. As for Bart Sears, this is more
readable than some of his recent work, but there are still
some strikingly awful pages. Page 8 is a splash page of
Sabretooth... well, I suppose he's meant to be running through
the forest, but his body language is so bizarre that it's hard
to know what the hell Sears thinks it's doing. It's
laughably terrible, in any event.
This is a bad, bad comic.
Perhaps it sounded interesting at the pitch stage. But
it's hard to see why.
Rating: D+
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